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The new website's search facility is of little practical use The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries has recently upgraded its website, with a new look. Unfortunately, the search facility is far worse than it was before. For example, if you search for "member pledge" you currently get this result: We ...

This shows you how to add a simple Application Insights query to get your top requested pages which you can then add (pin) to an Azure dashboard.

Where to find the link for an RSS feed to this blog.

My experience so far of Visual Studio 2022: the good (AI enabled Intellicode, being able to edit and continue during debugging), the bad (some false positive errors, need to revert to Visual Studio 2019 for adding code migrations via Package Manager Console). But overall I like it.

It is relatively easy to remove the use of a Startup.cs file after converting a web project from .NET 5.0 to .NET 6.0. This post shows how I did it.

I have just updated this site from .NET 5.0 (apart from an associated Azure function which was still .NET Core 3.1) to .NET 6.0 (for both the site and the function).

Microsoft's Durable Functions (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durable/durable-functions-overview?tabs=csharp ) are a very useful tool for performing some complex tasks in a robust serverless way. But in situations where there is a large number of different tasks involved, they introduce their own overhead which can slow things down significantly. This is because if there ...

As mentioned in this article, updating this from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 5.0 was quite straightforward.

If you look at a .NET 5.0 App Service (website) in the Azure portal, you will currently (3 Feb 2021) see that the Applications Insight link in the left hand menu is disabled, with a tooltip when you hover over it saying that Application Insights is not yet supported for ...

A quick note to warn users of Microsoft's Azure functions: I have quite often found that the Monitor facility misses out showing some recent function runs. Querying the Application Insights logs for traces, requests and exceptions is more reliable.